A day in the life with Org - by Sacha Chua

A day in the life with Org - by Sacha Chua

[Charles Cave]

Sacha Chua has written a very useful article about her use of org-mode

http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/22/a-day-in-a-life-with-org/

.. complete with blocks of Lisp code


Charles

Re: A day in the life with Org - by Sacha Chua

[Adam Spiers]

Charles Cave (charles_cave@optusnet.com.au) wrote:
> Sacha Chua has written a very useful article about her use of org-mode
> 
> http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/22/a-day-in-a-life-with-org/
> 
> .. complete with blocks of Lisp code

This is a fantastic article, with several great ideas which I would
*love* to see integrated into the official tree:

  - Option to automatically change a task's state when clocking into it

  - Standardised way of estimating completion time for tasks

  - Reviewing scheduled "load" - i.e. what percentage of a day is
    already allocated by scheduling tasks for that day, vs. how much
    free time there is on that day (this would ideally take
    appointments into account too)

  - Reviewing accuracy of initial estimates after completion

This would be getting dangerously close to my nirvana of time
management: an as yet hypothetical mind experiment in which my boss
gives me a new project, asks me when it can be completed by, and I
tell him straight away in confidence that I've committed myself to
something entirely attainable, through knowing that I have already
accurately scheduled time for all other tasks which need to be
completed before then ;-)

Re: A day in the life with Org - by Sacha Chua

[Carsten Dominik]

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Hi Adam,

this is now pretty much all implemented in the latest version, check out

http://orgmode.org/manual/Effort-estimates.html#Effort-estimates

- Carsten

On Dec 30, 2007, at 11:59 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:

> Charles Cave (charles_cave@optusnet.com.au) wrote:
>> Sacha Chua has written a very useful article about her use of org- 
>> mode
>>
>> http://sachachua.com/wp/2007/12/22/a-day-in-a-life-with-org/
>>
>> .. complete with blocks of Lisp code
>
> This is a fantastic article, with several great ideas which I would
> *love* to see integrated into the official tree:
>
>  - Option to automatically change a task's state when clocking into it
>
>  - Standardised way of estimating completion time for tasks
>
>  - Reviewing scheduled "load" - i.e. what percentage of a day is
>    already allocated by scheduling tasks for that day, vs. how much
>    free time there is on that day (this would ideally take
>    appointments into account too)
>
>  - Reviewing accuracy of initial estimates after completion
>
> This would be getting dangerously close to my nirvana of time
> management: an as yet hypothetical mind experiment in which my boss
> gives me a new project, asks me when it can be completed by, and I
> tell him straight away in confidence that I've committed myself to
> something entirely attainable, through knowing that I have already
> accurately scheduled time for all other tasks which need to be
> completed before then ;-)
>
>
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Re: A day in the life with Org - by Sacha Chua

[Adam Spiers]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 06:15:06AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> this is now pretty much all implemented in the latest version, check out
> 
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Effort-estimates.html#Effort-estimates
> 
> - Carsten

This sounds awesome - really looking forward to trying it out, thanks!